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第十八篇

Danielle是Chandler的新约会对象。第一次约会后Chandler感觉很好，但他却不愿意立即打电话给Danielle以表示他对她的好感，后来在老友们的“逼迫”下，他才给Danielle留了言，可她一直没回电，弄得Chandler心神不宁。最后没想到Danielle到咖啡馆来找Chandler了：

Danielle: Chandler?
Chandler: Danielle! Hi! Uh- everybody, this is Danielle, Danielle, everybody.
All: Hi. Hi.
Chandler: What are you doing here?
Danielle: Well, I’ve been calling you, but it turns out I had your number wrong. And when I finally got the right one from Information, there was no answer. So I thought I’d just come down here, and make sure you were okay.
Chandler: …I’m, I’m okay.
Danielle: Listen uh, maybe we could get together later?
Chandler: That sounds good. I’ll call you- or you call me, whatever…
Danielle: You got it.
Chandler: Okay.
Danielle: G’bye, everybody.
All: Bye.
Phoebe: Whoo-hoo!
Monica: Yeah, there you go!
Ross: Second date!
Chandler: …I don’t know.
Rachel: You don’t know?!
Chandler: Well, she seems very nice and everything, but that whole thing about her coming all the way down here, just to see if I was okay? I mean,… how needy is that?

【世博视角】

Danielle可不像Chandler那样喜欢玩欲擒故纵的游戏，第一次约会后她就一直在打Chandler的电话，可结果发现她把号码给搞错了(Well, I’ve been calling you, but it turns out I had your number wrong.)。turn out 这个词组在这里表示“…证明为,”它经常以这样的句型出现 it turns out (that)…比如:It turns out that I was right all along. 当Danielle终于得到正确的号码再打给Chandler时，却没人接电话 (And when I finally got the right one from Information, there was no answer.) 注意这句话中的Information首字母大写，特指美国的电话查号台，就相当于我们这里的114。

在说明了来由之后，Danielle 试探性地问道：“Listen uh, maybe we could get together later?”还是Danielle采取了主动想再次约会Chandler，但由于他们才约会了一次，彼此都还不是很熟悉，再加上Danielle还不能确定Chandler是否愿意再同自己约会，所以她在问句中用了maybe和could这两个词，使句子听上去比较委婉。Danielle这样一问可正中Chanlder的下怀，可他还是“矜持”地回答说：“听上去不错，我再打电话给你吧，或者你打给我，怎么样都行(That sounds good. I’ll call you- or you call me, whatever…)。”whatever用在口语里面可以表示任何一种选择都可以，你并不介意，又比如说：What can I offer you? Coffee, tea, lemonade? Oh, I don’t care. Whatever. 再看一下Danielle的回答，她说：“You got it.” 又是一个很口语化的表达法，它在这里的意思就是“听你的”，当我们表示同意按别人的要求或是想法去做某事时，除了最平常的Okay外，也可以说You got it.

Danielle走后，老友们都为Chandler感到高兴，Monica欢呼道：“Yeah, there you go!” there you go 这个表达法在不同的上下文中有不同的意思，它既可以用来褒贬某人的行为，也可以表示接受某件不如意的事情。在刚才那一句中，Monica所说的there you go 是用来增强Chandler的信心的，又比如：There you go! I told you it was easy. 另外, there you go 有时也可以说成there you are 。

按说Chandler的目的达到了，他应该觉得很兴奋才对，可此时他却提不起劲来，理由是：Well, she seems very nice and everything, but that whole thing about her coming all the way down here, just to see if I was okay? I mean,… how needy is that? 可能很多人都没想到need还有形容词形式needy，它除了用来形容那些生活贫困、缺衣少食的人之外，还可以形容某人在精神方面很需要关爱，例如：Sally was very insecure and needy. 先前Chandler可是一直坐立不安地在等Danielle的电话，一副 “needy” 样，可现在他反而嫌Danielle太needy了。看来 “女人太主动，男人就不珍惜” 这句话还真没说错呢！

*本篇所讲到的地道表达法：

it turns out (that)
whatever
you got it.
there you go
needy

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第十七篇

Ross和Chandler看到Joey走进咖啡馆时不禁笑了起来，原来Joey昨晚在和他们打牌时犯了一个很好笑的错误。这时，Rachel想到了一个问题：

Rachel: How come you guys have never played poker with us?
Phoebe: Yeah, what is that? Like, some kind of guy thing? Like, some kind of sexist guy thing? Like it’s poker, so only guys can play?
Ross: No, women are welcome to play.
Phoebe: Oh, OK, so then what is it? Some kind of… you know, like, like… some kind of, y’know, like… alright, what is it?
Chandler: There just don’t happen to be any women in our games.
Joey: Yeah, we just don’t happen to know any women that know how to play poker.
Girls: Oh, yeah, right.
Monica: Oh, please, that is such a lame excuse!
Rachel: Really.
Monica: I mean, that’s a typical guy response.
Ross: Excuse me, do any of you know how to play?
Girls: No.
Rachel: But you could teach us.
Guys: No.

【世博视角】

说到“打牌”，我们通常会想到play cards，但在刚才的对话中，我们听到的是play poker, 别以为两者是一回事，play poker可是要输钱或是赢钱的！Rachel觉得很奇怪为什么“他们”从来不和“她们”玩牌，于是她问：“How come you guys have never played poker with us?” how come 和why一样也可以用来引导一个问句，所不同的是，如果你用how come来提问就表示说你觉得某件事很奇怪，有点想不通。比方说星期一早上我应该起床去上班的，可等我妈妈买菜回来一看我还在呼呼大睡时就可以问：“ How come you are still sleeping? ” 还有一点需要注意，那就是以how come开头的问句使用的仍是陈述句的句式。

Rachel的诘问马上得到了Phoebe的附和，她接着问道： “Yeah, what is that? Like, some kind of guy thing? Like, some kind of sexist guy thing? Like it’s poker, so only guys can play? （是啊，这是怎么回事？好像这是男人做事情，就好像这是扑克，只有男人们才能玩似的？）” 一般来说，女生总是play cards, 而男生则喜欢play poker, 当然这也不一定，所以Ross回答说： “No, women are welcome to play.” 然后Chandler和Joey补充说他们只是碰巧没遇上会玩扑克的女生 (Yeah, we just don’t happen to know any women that know how to play poker.)。happen to do sth表示 “碰巧怎么样” 比如：I happened to meet an old friend in town. 另外，在问别人借东西的时候，譬如借一支钢笔，我们也可以说：“Do you happen to have a pen I can borrow?” 这样就会给人感觉相当的礼貌。

听完那些guys 所给的理由之后，Monica叫了起来: “Oh, please, that is such a lame excuse!” lame这个词的意思是 “跛足的、腐腿的”, 但现在我们通常很少用它来形容人，因为这会让人听了不舒服，所以lame经常被用来修饰excuse、explanation 或arguments等词，表示 “站不住脚的”。可结果Ross的一句问话证明他们刚才所说的并不是a lame excuse.

*本篇所讲到的地道表达法：

play poker
how come …?
happen to do sth
lame excuse / explanation / arguments

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第十六篇

这天大伙坐在一起分工合作帮Rachel弄简历：

Ross: Uh, Rach, we’re running low on resumes over here.
Monica: Do you really want a job with Popular Mechanics?
Chandler: Well, if you’re gonna work for mechanics, those are the ones to work for.
Rachel: Hey, look, you guys, I’m going for anything here, OK? I cannot be a waitress anymore, I mean it. I’m sick of the lousy tips, I’m sick of being called ‘Excuse me…’
Ross: Rach, did you proofread these?
Rachel: Uh… yeah, why?
Ross: Uh, nothing, I’m sure they’ll be impressed with your excellent compuper skills.
Rachel: Oh my Goood!

【世博视角】

Ross负责的是头道工序，也就是将Rachel的简历（resume）折起来，然后再交给Joey装进信封。过了一会儿，他对Rachel说：“Uh, Rach, we’re running low on resumes over here.” 听到这句话，我想大家应该能明白Ross的意思是说他们那里的简历快没了，可反过来要是我们想表达“什么东西快没有了”，大家是否会用这个非常简单的词组 running low on sth 呢？ 至少我以前是不会说 We are running low on milk 来表示牛奶快喝完了。

Rachel好像急于想换新工作，她甚至向机械方面的专业杂志Popular Mechanics投了简历。Rachel之所以这么“饥不择食”是因为她不想再当咖啡馆的女招待了(I cannot be a waitress anymore, I mean it.) 如果你想要强调自己所说的话是当真的，你就可以像Rachel一样在句子后面加上 I mean it。接下去她又说：“I’m sick of the lousy tips, I’m sick of being called ‘Excuse me…’ be sick of sth 也是一个常用的口语，表示 “对…感到很不高兴或是反感”。我们知道从事服务性行业的人都会有可能得到小费 (get a tip), 在国外尤其如此，而且数目不小。但在刚才的句子中，Rachel却用了lousy这个词来形容她所得到的小费少得可怜；这是一个非正式词语，就相当于bad, 比如我们还可以说：lousy weather, a lousy singer 等等。

就在大家快要完工的时候，Ross突然问Rachel有没有校对过她写的简历（Rach, did you proofread these?）我们听到她有点心虚地回答说yeah, 然后问怎么了。 “哦，没什么，我肯定他们会对你优秀的compuper skills留下印象（Uh, nothing, I’m sure they’ll be impressed with your excellent compuper skills.）”原来粗心的Rachel把computer 给拼错了，害得大家白忙活了一场!

*本篇所讲到的地道表达法：

running low on sth
I mean it!
be sick of sth
lousy tips / weather / singer etc.